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Energy storage is a key enabling technology to facilitate an efficient system integration of intermittent renewable generation and support energy system decarbonisation. However, there are still many open questions regarding the design, capacity, and value of long-duration electricity storage (LDES), the synergy or competition with other flexibility technologies such as demand response, short-duration storage, and other forms of energy storage such as hydrogen storage. This paper presents a novel integrated formulation of electricity and hydrogen systems to identify the roles and quantify the value of long-duration energy storage holistically. A spectrum of case studies has been performed using the proposed approach on a future 2050 net-zero emission system background of Great Britain (GB) with a high share of renewable generation and analysed to identify the value drivers, including the impact of prolonged low wind periods during winter, the impact of different designs of LDES, and its competitiveness and synergy with other technologies. The results demonstrate that high storage capacity can affect how the energy system will evolve and help reduce system costs.


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Whole system value of long-duration electricity storage in systems with high penetration of renewables

Show Author's information Danny Pudjianto( )Goran Strbac
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK

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Energy storage is a key enabling technology to facilitate an efficient system integration of intermittent renewable generation and support energy system decarbonisation. However, there are still many open questions regarding the design, capacity, and value of long-duration electricity storage (LDES), the synergy or competition with other flexibility technologies such as demand response, short-duration storage, and other forms of energy storage such as hydrogen storage. This paper presents a novel integrated formulation of electricity and hydrogen systems to identify the roles and quantify the value of long-duration energy storage holistically. A spectrum of case studies has been performed using the proposed approach on a future 2050 net-zero emission system background of Great Britain (GB) with a high share of renewable generation and analysed to identify the value drivers, including the impact of prolonged low wind periods during winter, the impact of different designs of LDES, and its competitiveness and synergy with other technologies. The results demonstrate that high storage capacity can affect how the energy system will evolve and help reduce system costs.

Keywords: Long-duration energy storage (LDES), whole-system optimisation, integrated electricity-hydrogen system

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Received: 23 November 2021
Revised: 28 January 2022
Accepted: 18 February 2022
Published: 25 March 2022
Issue date: March 2022

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The authors appreciate the data provided, guidance, and fruitful discussions from SSE plc colleagues, particularly from Pavel Miller, Sean Kelly, and Emmeline Smart. However, the views, opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed in this article are strictly those of the author(s).

Furthermore, the authors would like to express their gratitude to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for the support obtained through the Integrated Development of Low-Carbon Energy Systems and Energy Storage for Low Carbon Grids programmes, that supported substantial enhancement of the modelling framework, that has been applied in this study.

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